When the Body Becomes All Eyes Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art

Phillip B. Zarrilli

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is the first in-depth study of kalarippayattu - one of India's traditional martial and medical arts dating from at least the 12th century AD. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this study traces how kalarippayattu is a mode of cultural practice through which bodies, knowledges, powers, agency, selves, and identities are constantly repositioned.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780195655384
Publisher:	OUP India
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	28 Sep 2000
Language:	English
Number of pages:	332
Weight:	282g
Height:	218mm
Width:	141mm
Spine width:	20mm